Davers's heart was moved again.

"Olivers, I think this situation you are talking about is impossible. Calculate the time, unless Hilos can defeat Laus in one day, arrive at Knapetia immediately, and then launch an attack on Trina soon... We are all long-standing people, can this situation happen?!" Antonios expressed serious doubts about Olivers' speculation.

"Even if it is impossible, we should fight the Syracuse people here as soon as possible to create an opportunity for Hilos to assault the enemy's rear!" Amintas took the opportunity to say.

"If we are in a hurry to fight here, if we are defeated... What's the point of Hilos even if he takes Trina back!" Capps reminded.

"How could our legion be defeated!" Amintas yelled.

...

The legion commanders in the tent were fiercely arguing.

In addition to the commander of the Third Legion Alexis, who is far away in Lucania, and the former commander of the Legion Hilos, the tent gathers all of Dioria's legions, the First Legion Commander of the First Legion, the Second Legion Commander Amintas, the Fourth Legion Commander Epigenis, the Acting Commander of the Fifth Legion, the Sixth Legion Commander Olivers, the Seventh Legion Commander Matonis, the Commander of the Spear Brigade Cappus (former commander), and the former commander of the Legion, who led 5,000 Lucanian soldiers to hurry to arrive at the tent yesterday evening. It can be said that the tent is full of starry-gathering stars.

If in the past, these senior generals with rich war experience had strong combat effectiveness and the strict Dionysian military system, they would often argue about how to attack the enemy. But today, except for the taciturn Hironimus, everyone held their own opinions, and even ignored the past combat friendship and developed to the point of cursing, which just showed that they were afraid of the Syracuse army across the river. After all, this was a group with nearly 10,000 more soldiers than the Dionysian army. They had also experienced countless battles and had a powerful commander. They knew very well that this was not an army that could be easily defeated.

At the same time, the Legion Commanders argued endlessly, because Davers never expressed his opinion. It was not that he pretended to be reserved, but that he did not make up his mind. Therefore, he did not stop the fierce debate between the Legion Commanders, hoping that this collision of ideas could help him clarify some ideas. Although the Deonia fleet already had an absolute advantage in the battle between the two armies, he would not arrogantly think that the same was true in the army. For such a war that concerns the rise and fall of their respective countries and the lives and deaths of the people, even if he had a lot of careful preparations, he still needed to be calm and cautious.

At this time, the captain of the guard Martius came in to report: "Your Majesty, several messengers from Crotone and Trina have come from the other side."

The legion commanders stopped arguing and looked at Davers together.

Davers pondered for a moment and asked a key question: "Although the inner city of Crotone was burned, the cavalry of Syracuse were still cruising on the other side. How did they come?"

"Listen to the escorts, it seems that the Syracuses did not intercept them," said Martius.

"Your Majesty, this is obviously a conspiracy of the Syracuse people!" Antonios reminded loudly.

"Is it a conspiracy that we won't save our allies?!" Amintas asked loudly.

Davers glanced at them and asked his escort captain: "Have you ever asked what they are here for?"

"Of course I'm here to ask for help." Martius showed a hint of disdain, and then felt disrespectful to the allies. He hurriedly said, "Oh, they also said that there is not much water in the Acropolis and it will not last a few days."

Davers nodded and fell into deep thought.

Everyone's eyes moved as Davers paved, but no one was talking to avoid disturbing Davers' thinking.

After a while, Davers stopped and stared at Martius: "You go out and tell the messengers, let them go back, I will not see them."

Everyone was stunned.

Phelisius just shouted: "Your Majesty--"

Davers waved his hand and said with a firm look: "I have made a decision, don't say anything more!"

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"Have all the Crotones captured in?" Dionysius asked when he saw Astagras come in.

"Sir, they all said Davers didn't even meet them, so they drove them away."

"I didn't see them at all?! Are you sure they were telling the truth?" Dionysius was a little suspicious.

"Of course, I can be sure. Several of them Crotone were scared by my torture instruments and they didn't dare to lie." Astargras said confidently with a big mouth.

Dionysius thought for a while and said with a sneer: "Put them all back, so that the Crotones in the Acropolis know how fearful the Dionians they expected were to be from our Syracuse and dare not cross the river to rescue them!"

"Yes, sir." Astargras turned and came out of the tent.

"It seems that the Dionians will not fight with us. Sir, what should we do next?" Fasce Pésas asked with some concern.

Dionysius did not answer immediately, but turned to look at the silent man in the corner of the military tent: "Pheebidas, what do you think the new king of Dionya wants to do?"

"How can I guess what a cunning person like you are thinking?" Phoebidas Jane said with a straightforward and sarcastic look: "As we Spartans do, we either attack or retreat, and we don't hesitate too much."

Dionysius did not show displeasure at Phoebidas's mockery, and turned to look at intelligence officer Androstini: "How is Bruty's situation?"

"Sir, since the elder Sedorum of Dionia took office as Chief Executive of Cosenza, he used bloody means to suppress the tribes that wanted to rebel, and summoned the leaders of various tribes to kill Petalu and Bergam in front of them. Now none of the tribes in Bruti dares to come out to express their dissatisfaction with Dionia. For this reason, my subordinates have not yet found any good methods..."

In the end, Androstini's voice became weaker and weaker. Recently, the performance of the Greek intelligence department he led was really unsatisfactory: First, the sudden military control of the Sixth Army after entering Crimesa caused him to lose a lot of capable personnel, and at the same time, the news of Crimesa was cut off; then Turiyi's comprehensive martial law made him unable to understand anything in the central area of ​​Dionysia; when the naval battle failed, he was denounced by Dionysius, and now even Bruti, the only one who could understand the situation, could no longer play any role...

"I'm asking about your transfer of the army in the Bruti area!" Dionysius glared at him and asked impatiently.

Androstini was still sweating coldly and said hurriedly: "Since the veteran of Dionia named Hilorimus recruited 5,000 Lucanian soldiers to Turiyi; another veteran, Hilos, led more than 2,000 people to Laus, no more troops were mobilized in the Bruti area, and Bruti's military source seemed to be a little exhausted."

"Where is Rauss?" This is what Dionysius cares about the most.

"As the Vigs imposed a strict blockade on the entire mountain road, our people could not find out the situation of the battle in Laus, and there was no news about the spies in Laus City..."

As soon as Androstini finished speaking, Fasce Pesas said: "Sir. Laus is also a big city on the west coast of Greater Greece. Arbomas has been in charge of Laus for many years. It is probably not that easy for the Dionians to conquer the city of Laus."

Although Dionysius did not answer, he agreed with this view. In this way, at least he did not have to worry about the problems in the rear for the time being, so he did not need to consider the withdrawal of the army back to Siliteng for the time being.

Dionysius knew very well: giving up Crotone, who had made great sacrifices and retreated to Silitun. Doing so would not only greatly dampen the morale of the soldiers and arouse dissatisfaction among the generals, but also mean that Syracuse gave up the offensive since its landing and took the defensive stance to let the Dionyans take the initiative in the war. Over time, this would only make the Siracuse army's situation worse in Greece, so it must be forced to fight again as soon as possible!

"FascePesas, you immediately lead 2,000 people to launch rockets and fire-drawing objects at the Crotone Acropolis on the hills with their belly bows and crossbows!" Dionysius issued an order, and the generals and ministers in the tent were stunned.

"Sir, there is a temple of Apollo in the Acropolis!" Damocles reminded loudly.

"I think Apollo will never allow Hades to occupy Turii for a long time, so he protected us to capture Crotone in a short time, and allowed us to burn the city of Crotone. Now he certainly won't care too much about our little offense to his temple..." Dionysius sneered in his heart, but on the surface he patiently enlightened them: "Besides, I don't plan to burn the Acropolis, but just want the Crotones to panic, consume their water, and force them to ask Dionya for help again."

Dionysius's order was quickly executed, and dozens of crossbows and belly bows were carried to the hill by thousands of Syracuse soldiers and began to eject fireballs and rockets into the acropolis.

In order to preserve water, the frightened people in Crotone carried soil to put out the fire, which caused many people to be burned.

Under the intentional indulgence of the Syracuse people, they sent a messenger who asked Dionia for help and successfully crossed the Neto River, while Davers's answer was still: "No!"
Chapter completed!